Less than eight miles south of Warsaw's centre, yet within its city limits lies Jeziorki. Through it runs ul. Trombity, one of Warsaw's more fascinating streets. A mile long, ul. Trombity is full of contrast - houses old and new, farmyards, wildlife, wetlands; aircraft fly over it, trains trundle past it. Suburban yet rural, this is Jeziorki - 'Land of the Little Lakes'.

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Most Poniatowskiego

Looking at this time of year like a fairy tale castle rather than a key bit of Warsaw's transport infrastructure, this is my favourite bridge over the Vistula. Blown up twice, rebuilt twice, the Poniatowski bridge and the area around it has a unique atmosphere, a blend of industrial revolution meets high renaissance (only the Dom Luis cast iron arch bridge over the River Douro in Oporto, Portugal, beats it from among bridges I've seen, but then I've not been to Brooklyn).

Beyond the Poniatowski bridge is a parallel railway bridge, and at its western end W-wa Powiśle station. It's here I'm heading, to catch the train home to W-wa Jeziorki.

Just over two months until the football starts. Looking down over the construction site of the new roads running into Warsaw, it's clear...

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Welcome to Jeziorki - Land of the Little Lakes

Eight miles south of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, within the city limits, is a part of town that's a rural suburbia, a lost dream in western Europe - rus in suburbe - where newly-built houses stand among arable fields, where hares and pheasants can be seen in the wild, where wetlands play host to gulls and moorhens. And all within easy commuting distance of the capital city of the European Union's sixth-largest member state.